Text Complexity Common Core Recommendations and South Milwaukee

Common Core Grades 6-8: Literature Stories, Drama, Poetry

• Little Women by Louisa May Alcott (1869) Lexile 1210
• The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain (1876) Lexile 950
• “The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost (1915)
• The Dark Is Rising by Susan Cooper (1973) Lexile 920
• Dragonwings by Laurence Yep (1975) Lexile 870
• Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred Taylor (1976) Lexile 920

South Milwaukee Middle School Grades 6-8: Literature Stories, Drama, Poetry

• Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech (1994) Lexile 770
• Old Yeller by Fred Gibson (1956) Lexile 910
• The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton (1967) Lexile 750

Common Core Grades 9-10 Literature Stories, Drama, Poetry

• The Tragedy of Macbeth by William Shakespeare (1592) Lexile 1350
• “Ozymandias” by Percy Bysshe Shelley (1817)
• “The Raven” by Edgar Allan Poe (1845)
• “The Gift of the Magi” by O. Henry (1906) Lexile 940
• The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck (1939)
• Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury (1953) Lexile 890
• The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara (1975)
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South Milwaukee High School Common Core Grades 9-10 Literature Stories, Drama, Poetry

• Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare (1592) Lexile 1350
• Animal Farm (1945) by George Orwell Lexile1370
• Lord of the Flies (1954) by William Golding Lexile 770
• Night
• Of Mice and Men (1937) by John Steinbeck Lexile 630
• To Kill a Mockingbird (1960) by Harper Lee Lexile 870

Common Core Literature Stories, Drama, Poetry Grades 11-CCR

• “Ode on a Grecian Urn” by John Keats (1820)
• Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë (1848) Lexile 890
• “Because I Could Not Stop for Death” by Emily Dickinson (1890)
• The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (1925) Lexile 1070
• Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston (1937) Lexile 1080
• A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry (1959)
• The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri (2003)

South Milwaukee High School Literature Stories, Drama, Poetry Grades 11-CCR

• Scarlet Letter
• Huck Finn
• The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (1925) Lexile 1070
• Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston (1937) Lexile 1080
• Hamlet
• Crime and Punishment
• Kite Runner